Chick Corea & Bela Fleck – Remembrance (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:49 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Béla Fleck Productions
Remembrance, a new double album out May 10, serves as a moving final document of the profound creative and personal rapport that banjoist Béla Fleck and pianist Chick Corea first showcased at album length with 2007’s Latin Grammy-winning The Enchantment. It’s also a crucial addendum to Corea’s legacy, featuring three previously unreleased Corea compositions as well as five short free improvisations, or impromptus, that Fleck has infused with written music. “We pushed this duo to a new place before we ran out of time,” says Fleck, who produced Remembrance. “We have here another cool look at Chick Corea, at the different ways that he can play that we wouldn’t have had. There’s a lot of great Chick Corea out there, and this is different.”
Read moreChick Corea Elektric Band & Chick Corea – The Future Is Now (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:58:52 minutes | 2,34 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Candid
Led by legendary pianist and composer Chick Corea – a 27-time Grammy Award winner and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master – the Elektric Band burst onto the jazz scene in the mid-1980s, leaving an immediate and lasting mark on the genre. With their electrifying performances and innovative blend of jazz fusion, the group produced a series of albums that set the bar high for contemporary jazz.
With a core cast of virtuoso musicians – John Patitucci on bass, Dave Weckl on drums, Eric Marienthal on saxophone and Frank Gambale on guitar – the group created a dynamic and electrifying sound that defined the jazz-fusion style. Their collective musicianship was on full display on each album as they seamlessly blended complex compositions with captivating improvisations.
After releasing five legendary albums in six years, Corea, always interested in expanding the scope of his work, devoted himself to a variety of other musical projects.
Read moreChick Corea – Sardinia (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:27 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Candid
In the immense legacy of the legendary pianist Ch Sardinia is the posthumous album of the American artist who died in 2021, due out on September 15. Inside there is the concert recorded in Mogoro on November 29, 2018 for the Culture Festival: a special evening where the greatazz.
Read moreJoe Henderson, Chick Corea – Mirror, Mirror (1980/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:44 minutes | 937 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Joe Henderson is the essence of jazz. He embodies all the elements that came together in his generation: the virtuosity of hard bop and the avantgarde. He can be harmonically abstract and yet keep to the roots.
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Joe Henderson. Billy Higgins, Ron Carter, Chick Corea – Mirror, Mirror (1993/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 43:44 minutes | 1,79 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS
Joe Henderson is the essence of jazz. He embodies all the elements that came together in his generation: the virtuosity of hard bop and the avantgarde. He can be harmonically abstract and yet keep to the roots. On 1980’s “Mirror, Mirror”, Henderson has gathered a truly all-star group. This album isn’t about a soloist and his sidemen: all the musicians are on an equal footing, everyone has their space to play.
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Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock – An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert (1978/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:31:28 minutes | 1,56 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
An Evening With Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert is a live album featuring Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea playing only acoustic piano. Recorded over several live performances in February 1978, the album is an interesting departure from the jazz fusion which both keyboardists specialize in playing.
Read moreGary Burton, Chick Corea – Crystal Silence (1973) [Japan 2017]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 44:08 minutes | Scans included | 1,82 GB
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Released in 1973, Crystal Silence heralded the beginning of a long and productive association between Gary Burton and Chick Corea, even leading to a Crystal Silence sequel in 2008. The popularity of their collaboration far exceeded expectations for interest in a band consisting solely of piano and vibraphone; in fact Crystal Silence has gone on to become one of the most successful titles in the ECM catalogue.
Read moreGary Burton, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes, Dave Holland – Like Minds (1998/2006)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:08:26 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Jazz
The winner of the 1998 Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance. For this spectacular album, vibraphonist Gary Burton arranged the first recording encounter between pianist Chick Corea and guitarist Pat Metheny, and recruited an impeccable rhythm section staffed by bassist Dave Holland and drum legend Roy Haynes. LIKE MINDS, the resulting album, ranks among these musicians best work, with the kind of soul-deep communication that is often expected but so rarely occurs on all-star sessions.
This recording is simply sheer brilliance.”Dave Hughes, All About Jazz
Read moreGary Burton, Chick Corea – Crystal Silence (1973/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:38 minutes | 852 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Released in 1973, Crystal Silence heralded the beginning of a long and productive association between Gary Burton and Chick Corea, even leading to a Crystal Silence sequel in 2008. The popularity of their collaboration far exceeded expectations for interest in a band consisting solely of piano and vibraphone; in fact Crystal Silence has gone on to become one of the most successful titles in the ECM catalogue.
Read moreChick Corea – Return To Forever (1972) [Japan 2017]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 46:46 minutes | Scans included | 1,89 GB
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The legendary first lineup of Chick Corea’s fusion band Return to Forever debuted on this classic album (titled after the group but credited to Corea), featuring Joe Farrell on soprano sax and flute, the Brazilian team of vocalist Flora Purim and drummer/percussionist Airto Moreira, and electric bass whiz Stanley Clarke. It wasn’t actually released in the U.S. until 1975, which was why the group’s second album, Light as a Feather, initially made the Return to Forever name. Nonetheless, Return to Forever is every bit as classic, using a similar blend of spacy electric-piano fusion and Brazilian and Latin rhythms. It’s all very warm, light, and airy, like a soft breeze on a tropical beach – hardly the sort of firebrand approach to fusion that Miles Davis, Tony Williams, and the Mahavishnu Orchestra were exploring, and far less rooted in funk or rock. Corea also bathes the album in an undertone of trippy mysticism, not only in the (admittedly dated) lyrics, but in his cosmic keyboard wanderings, which remain melodic and accessible through most of the record. There’s one genuine pop song in the groovy samba “What Game Shall We Play Today,” and while “Sometime Ago” has similar elements, it’s part of an ambitious side-long medley that features a stream-of-consciousness intro and a jubilant, Spanish/Mexican-style closing section called “La Fiesta,” complete with castanets and flamenco modes. The title track is another multi-sectioned work, featuring Corea and Purim in wordless unison on two different, catchy themes, plus breezy work from Farrell and lots of Brazilian-flavored rhythmic interplay. And the dreamy, meditative “Crystal Silence” is an underrated gem waiting to be rediscovered. Certainly, this edition of Return to Forever wasn’t inclined toward high-voltage jazz-rock (as the next one was), but this group’s two albums still stand as some of the most imaginative and distinctive early fusion recordings.
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